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Gina JordanIn 1947, a 28-year-old baseball player named Jackie Robinson broke the Major League’s color barrier when he signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. That historical document and others will be on display at two Miami Marlins games this week. Robinson’s four-page contract with the Dodgers has been authenticated and valued at $36-million. His signature on that piece of paper effectively integrated major league baseball and indirectly sparked the country’s movement against segregation. Robinson’s starting salary was $5000. He won the league’s first-ever Rookie of the Year award and led the Dodgers to the World Series, where they lost to the Yankees in seven games. A few years later, Robinson became the Dodgers’ highest paid player with a $35-thousand salary. Robinson’s original signed Major League contract - and his 1945 Minor League contract with the Montreal Royals - can be viewed at the Tuesday night (7:10pm)and Wednesday afternoon (12:10pm) games between the Marlins and the SanContracts That Helped Launch Desegregation On Display At Marlins Gameshttp://wlrn.org/post/contracts-helped-launch-desegregation-display-marlins-games
72523 as http://wlrn.orgMon, 08 Aug 2016 23:37:34 +0000Contracts That Helped Launch Desegregation On Display At Marlins GamesMarva Hinton More than 1,500 members of the civic group 100 Black Men of America are in Fort Lauderdale this week for the organization’s 28th annual convention. The mission of the 100 is to improve quality of life within the black community and to create more educational and economic opportunities for all African Americans. The group focuses on four areas: mentoring, education, health and wellness, and economic opportunity. Dennis Wright is the president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale chapter and he joined us recently to talk about the group’s efforts to mentor young, black men ages 12 to 18. How does your mentoring program work? The Greater Fort Lauderdale chapter has a leadership academy where we meet with the young men. We provide group mentoring every Saturday from 10 to 12. For the past 10 years we've been providing group mentoring and peer-to-peer mentoring and then that spawns one-on-one mentoring as needs require. Sometimes we actually go into the classroom. I've attended parent-teacher100 Black Men Of America Convention Geared To Overcome Stereotypeshttp://wlrn.org/post/100-black-men-america-convention-geared-overcome-stereotypes
33837 as http://wlrn.orgFri, 13 Jun 2014 04:54:29 +0000100 Black Men Of America Convention Geared To Overcome StereotypesSammy MackBrown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal — turns 60 years old this year. Earlier this week, we brought you memories from students and teachers who were there in the early days of desegregation. And now, with decades of perspective, here are some of the things they learned from integration: "You don't get black or white from kids" In 1963, Mamie Pinder was a first-time classroom teacher in the previously all-white Allapattah Elementary School. She taught fourth grade. Eventually, Pinder went on to be the first black woman to run for mayor of Miami. “One day I spent the time asking each of my kids — who were black and white now — ‘What color are you? What color are you?’ You get pink, brown, blue. Any color. You don’t get black or white from kids. The kids are taught — it’s a true saying — in the home. Home is the first school of education. What that child is taught in the home is what that child brings into the world.What Desegregation Was Like In Miamihttp://wlrn.org/post/what-desegregation-was-miami
32373 as http://wlrn.orgMon, 09 Jun 2014 15:47:02 +0000What Desegregation Was Like In MiamiSammy MackThis weekend marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal. A recent ProPublica investigation found at least 300 school districts that are still under court-ordered desegregation. Eleven of those districts are in Florida. Even though Miami-Dade County had those desegregation orders lifted relatively recently in 2001, it was an early leader in desegregation, putting black and white children and black and white teachers in the same schools. StateImpact Florida collected memories from some of those students and teachers. Note to listeners: this story contains strong language. David Smiley and Emily Michot of the Miami Herald contributed to this story. Some of these stories came to us from the Public Insight Network, an online community of people who have agreed to share their opinions with The Miami Herald and WLRN. Become a news source for WLRN by going to WLRN.org/Insight. Hear Floridians Talk About Their Desegregation Experienceshttp://wlrn.org/post/hear-floridians-talk-about-their-desegregation-experiences
32190 as http://wlrn.orgMon, 12 May 2014 18:34:50 +0000Hear Floridians Talk About Their Desegregation ExperiencesDorothy Ellen Jenkins FieldsMy maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is believed that their foreparents were among the millions of black slaves forced from West Africa and sold in the West Indies. Papa was Samuel David. He was born in 1872. His parents were John David and Matilda Johnson, descendants of ancestors from Haiti and Barbados and considered a wealthy planter.By comparison Mama's family was poor. She was born Ida Ellen Roberts to Horatio and Letitia Roberts in Harbour Island. The Roberts family's ancestors may have lived in Bermuda.When their parents divorced, Mama and sister Dora were raised by an aunt who was the cook for the island's medical doctor, a white man trained in England. He encouraged them to learn to read and write. About 1897, Sam D. and Ida Ellen were married on Harbour Island in the St. John Wesleyan Methodist Church. Seeking better economic opportunities, Papa moved to Key West, became a sponger and sent for his bride. TwoEarly Settler Recalls Miami's Bustling Black Neighborhood Called "Colored Town"http://wlrn.org/post/early-settler-recalls-miamis-bustling-black-neighborhood-called-colored-town
15604 as http://wlrn.orgFri, 21 Jun 2013 21:35:00 +0000Early Settler Recalls Miami's Bustling Black Neighborhood Called "Colored Town"Gala Brown Munnings I was born in Nashville and spent the first four years of my life in Tuskegee, Ala. My father, Dr. John O. Brown Sr., moved to Miami in 1955 to begin his practice in ophthalmology. To this day, I'm glad he did. We had neighbors who were white and black. Our next-door neighbor was an older white lady who inspired my mother's love for growing orchids and my brother's passion for collecting butterflies. I attended schools -- Jackson's Toddle Inn and Floral Heights -- that were all black. I remember those as happy years. My life changed dramatically when I started sixth grade at Gladeview Elementary, the year desegregation was implemented in Dade County. I was too young to know this was a victory for my father and the other parents who had filed a lawsuit against the Dade County School Board in 1956 to make this possible. I only knew that I was sick every morning and that I was not happy there. It got worse when I attended Miami Edison Junior High. In my first year, there were only threeDesegregation Pioneer Recalls School Integration In Miamihttp://wlrn.org/post/desegregation-pioneer-recalls-school-integration-miami
12222 as http://wlrn.orgMon, 29 Apr 2013 12:27:00 +0000Desegregation Pioneer Recalls School Integration In Miami